Genesis 17:18

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And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under Your blessing!"

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  • Gen 4:12 : 12 'When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.'
  • Gen 4:14 : 14 'Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.'
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 Offer right sacrifices and trust in the LORD.
  • Ps 41:12 : 12 By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy does not triumph over me.
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 But your iniquities have created a divide between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 I will give them one heart and one way so that they may always fear Me, for their own good and the good of their children after them.
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.'

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  • Gen 17:19-21
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    19 Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

    20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him; I will make him fruitful and greatly multiply his descendants. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

    21 But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.

  • 17 Abraham fell facedown and laughed, saying to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"

  • 12 But God said to Abraham, 'Do not be distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.'

  • 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

  • 13 Then the LORD said to Abraham, 'Why did Sarah laugh, saying, “Can I really bear a child when I am old?”'

  • 18 even though it was said to him, 'Through Isaac your descendants will be named.'

  • 28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

  • Gen 21:17-18
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    17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, 'What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid. God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.

    18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.'

  • 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all nations of the earth will be blessed.

  • 11 The angel of the LORD said to her, "You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard of your misery."

  • 3 Abram fell facedown, and God spoke with him, saying,

  • 15 Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.

  • Gen 21:2-3
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    2 Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had promised him.

    3 Abraham named his son, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

  • 2 Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"

  • 15 Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram named the son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

  • 7 And she added, 'Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.'

  • 17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, so they could bear children again.

  • 23 On that very day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and circumcised them, as God had told him.

  • Gen 17:25-26
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    25 And his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

    26 On that very day, Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

  • 12 This is the account of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.